Most manufacturers also seem to be concentrating on formulating fire-resistant or self-extinguishing grades of urethane foam that are aimed specifically at the burgeoning building markets.

Sandwich panels for building utility shelters that consist of kraft paper skins and rigid styrene foam cores also aroused interest in the construction field.

Commercial telescopes are available new and used, but in some places it is also common for amateur astronomers to build ( or commission the building of ) their own custom telescope.

Similarly, the silver used in jewelry and the aluminium used as a structural building material are also alloys.

Henry also proposed building a demonstration version of the full engine, with a smaller storage capacity: " perhaps for a first machine ten ( columns ) would do, with fifteen wheels in each ".

The main science building at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is also named after Albertus Magnus.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

During this period he also completed his first public buildings, the Jyväskylä Workers ' Club in 1925, the Jyväskylä Defence Corps building in 1926 and the Seinajoki Defence Corp building in 1924-29.

Aalto also entered several architectural competitions for prestigious state public buildings, both in Finland and abroad, including the two competitions for the Finnish Parliamentary building in 1923 and 1924, the extension to the University of Helsinki in 1931, and the building to house the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1926-27.

The Miesian formal language of geometric grids employed in the buildings was also used by Aalto for other sites in Helsinki, including the Enso-Gutzeit building ( 1962 ), the Academic Bookstore ( 1962 ) and the SYP Bank building ( 1969 ).

The building also houses The Axe Lounge, a convenience store, an information desk and two food outlets.

Likewise, " architecture " refers not only to the design of safe, functional buildings, but also to elements of creation and innovation which aim at elegant solutions to construction problems, to the use of space, and to the attempt to evoke an emotional response in the builders, owners, viewers and users of the building.

Earth sheltering and windbreaks can also reduce the absolute amount of heat needed by a building.

Owing to the complete absence of mountain building and glaciation since the Permian ( in many areas since the Cambrian ) ages, the outback is extremely rich in iron, aluminium, manganese and uranium ores, and also contains major deposits of gold, nickel, iron, lead and zinc ores.

There is also a fountain ( şadırvan ) where worshipers can perform ritual ablutions before prayer ; the dome over the şadırvan is capped by a skylight which creates a soft, serene light below ; thus playing an important role in the illumination of the large building.

Beacons can also be combined with semaphoric or other indicators to provide important information, such as the status of an airport, by the colour and rotational pattern of its airport beacon, or of pending weather as indicated on a weather beacon mounted at the top of a tall building or similar site.

The Reichstag building was also occasionally used as a venue for sittings of the Bundestag and its committees and the Bundesversammlung, the body which elects the German Federal President.

Thus the Bauhaus style, also known as the International Style, was marked by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design.

The definitive 1926 Bauhaus building in Dessau is also attributed to Gropius.

Two projects, the apartment building project in Dessau and the Törten row housing also in Dessau, fall in that category, but developing worker housing was not the first priority of Gropius nor Mies.

Specialist builders also exist and concentrate on building buses for special uses, or modifying standard buses into specialised products.

Bronze also has very low metal-on-metal friction, which made it invaluable for the building of cannon where iron cannonballs would otherwise stick in the barrel.

A storefront in the corner of the building houses Tom's Restaurant, a longtime neighborhood fixture that was featured as the fictional diner " Monk's " for establishing shots in the television series " Seinfeld ".

The house featured in the image of Kings Head St to the left, is unique in the town and is an example of a sailmaker's house, thought to have been built circa 1600. Notable public buildings, all later, include the parish church of St. Nicholas ( 1821 ) in a restrained Gothic style, with many original furnishings including a ( somewhat altered ) organ of the same date in the west end gallery, and the Guildhall of 1769, the only Grade I listed building in Harwich.

Jobs found office space in Palo Alto on 3475 Deer Creek Road, occupying a glass and concrete building which featured a staircase designed by architect I. M. Pei.

Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

The building featured in two hugely influential books of the time: Hitchcock and Johnson's The International Style published in 1932 and F. R. S. Yorke's The Modern House published in 1934, as well as the second volume of Corbusier's own series The Complete Works.

was built for Morris to designs by Webb ; it was Webb's first building as an independent architect Red House featured ceiling paintings by Morris, wall-hangings designed by Morris and worked by himself and Jane ; furniture painted by Morris and Rossetti, and wall-paintings and stained-and painted glass designed by Burne-Jones.

The playful modernity of the building and its environmentally sensitive design generated critical interest and the hotel was featured in a January 1952 story in Life.

Particularly noteworthy were the large flying boats the company produced-especially the largest aircraft designed built and flown by any of the Axis forces, the Bv 238, as well as ingenious approaches to aircraft building that even featured asymmetric designs.

Once empowered to erect a mission in a given area, the men assigned to it chose a specific site that featured a good water supply, plenty of wood for fires and building materials, and ample fields for grazing herds and raising crops.

Slumped top fill revealing edges of a Saxon sunken featured building

Boise State once operated a " West Campus " in Nampa, Idaho that featured a building with 28 classrooms, a bookstore and a library.

The building has been featured in such media references as the 2007 film Sivaji: The Boss, in which it is the setting for the song Style, composed by A. R.

The building is also featured in the computer game SimCity 4 as a buildable landmark.

The building was already known for having featured in the cover shot of a 1980s pictorial biography of 1960s ' mods, featuring them on their customised scooters outside the then Camberwell Labour Exchange.

The RCS building featured state of the art chemistry and physics laboratories in the east and west wings respectively, with the library of the Science Museum ( later featured in the film of The Ipcress File ) located in the central section between them.

The 25 selections were featured at the first YouTube Play event at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on October 21, 2010, during which the videos were projected on the exterior of the museum building and inside the museum ’ s rotunda.

A Chinese tong ( community organization ) building in Isleton was featured on a July 2008 episode of the PBS program History Detectives.

This building is an official California Point of Historical Interest and includes its own ghost ( the Blue Lady ) which has been featured in a number of ghost hunting programs including Unsolved Mysteries. Sci-Fi's Ghost Hunters recently found their paranormal claims to be fraudulent by revealing that owners of the distillery have created various hoaxes simulating paranormal activity.

The town featured two large YMCA buildings, a movie theater, ten grocery stores, a furniture store, three appliance dealers, ten gas stations, seven butcher markets, a dry cleaner, five cafes, three auto shops, a boat building and cabinet shop, a machine shop, three pharmacies, a bank, lighted basketball courts, professional basketball and baseball teams, and a newspaper called The D ’ Lo Herald.

Located next to the original Wisner high school building, it featured a large gazebo and was often the site for graduations and school activities.

The building still stands and was featured on HGTV's " If These Walls Could Talk " along with the historic Plainsboro Inn building ( circa 1790 ) which was built adjacent to " Planes Tavern " at Plainsboro Road and Dey Road.

The classroom building and smokehouse are featured in the academy's logo.

One Chase Manhattan Plaza was featured at the end as the Trask Industries building.